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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I don't understand, this happened years ago. Both Rocket League and Fall Guys originally came out on Steam, but disappeared from the Steam Store and became Epic Games exclusives. If you still own a Steam copy though, you can still play it.

Is this saying that the game will be unplayable without an Epic Games authentication or something? It's not like the Steam versions are getting updates anymore, so they should still be playable with other Steam members. Unless the publishers are pushing an update to the Steam version as well.

EDIT: Upon rereading, I see these games are being ported into another game. Does this affect Steam users at all, since Fortnite is an Epic Games exclusive?

I won't touch Epic Games, so this doesn't seem to have any effect on me.

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

RL on steam is getting updates but only for the windows client. The Linux & mac client is an old version that only works offline. I found this out the other day when I installed rocket league on steam to try out since I haven't played it in a long time

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can play online with Proton though (as of the last time I played at least)

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah I ended up installing the windows version with proton, had some weird hiccuping and regular intervals but that might just be me, otherwise it worked fine. I didn't actually try playing an online match though, only local multiplayer

[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago

I play RL through Steam, it's still getting all of the updates.